I have a confession to make. When a comic book character is killed, then brought back to life, I'm fine with it. I'm not upset. I don't feel that it cheapens the death, or death itself. I don't feel cheated or manipulated. I don't feel like the victim of a tacky publicity stunt.
Nope. I'm pleased. Sometimes ecstatic. Just about every time.
Why? Well, for one thing, because I don't have a movie state of mind when it comes to my comic books. If anything, I've got a television state of mind, as in television of the long-running show kind, where I'm happiest when there's a fair amount of consistency within a book.
For another, and this is the big one, while I like the stories and the plot twists, at heart I am a character-focused comic reader. If the characters are not there, why am I still reading? (Exception: Captain America, because a point was made of building up supporting characters into main characters of interest.)
I was happy to see the return of Clint Barton, and will be even happier when/if he's actually Hawkeye again.
I'll be happy to see the return of Captain America, whenever that happens.
I was...well, not unhappy to see the return of (Marvel's) Captain Marvel. (I will grant you that I've never read the story of his death.)
I didn't care much one way or the other about the return of Bucky as the Winter Soldier, since he wasn't a character I "knew," but am pretty pleased about it now.
When it comes to superheroes, my feeling is: the more the merrier.
1 comment:
Agreed. It was good to see the Doom Patrol's Elasti-Girl brought back a few years ago after her death in the late sixties, although the Byrne reboot I could take or leave (Rita Farr's background was more interesting as an athletic movie star instead of a Harvard-trained scientist). Nevertheless, Rita thankfully is back -- and if that proposed "Doom Patrol" movie ever comes to fruition (given the movie industry, I'm not holding my breath), perhaps we'll see Anne Hathaway portray her...at both skyscraper and thimble scale.
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